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To: LuxAerterna

Exactly. No parent should pay tuition at these 4 year schools for an undergraduate degree in anything other than a hard science or engineering degree, and the general requirements need to be KLEPPED out or done at a 2 year school. That would effectively defund the faculty left. If junior can’t cut it in those disciplines, College Plus and other options (some online) can get him that largely worthless piece of paper known as a BA relatively inexpensively. Becoming an electrician or a plumber would probably be a better option, though.


11 posted on 11/26/2008 7:23:47 AM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: achilles2000
No parent should pay tuition at these 4 year schools for an undergraduate degree in anything other than a hard science or engineering degree, and the general requirements need to be KLEPPED out or done at a 2 year school.

I strongly disagree with your assessment here. Having been through both a 4-year electrical engineering program and a 4-year liberal arts program (at a Conservative Christian college), there is value in a liberal arts curriculum, specifically in history, political science, geography, English, and modern and classical languages.

When I was first an engineering student, I found that I was being taught all kinds of math and physics and hard core technology, but I wasn't learning how to THINK and I sure was not learning how to write or communicate worth a damn.

Ultimately I felt cheated by my engineering education, so much so that I went back to college and got my degree in history. I went on to earn a Master's in history and am now gainfully employed using that degree.

So, it's not necessarily the curriculum that's bad, but the Communist professors who have infiltrated academia since the 1960s who have given liberal arts a bad name.

And despite what many on this forum may believe, college is not a vocational school, but supposedly an institution where young men and women are educated at a higher level than high school and where they can learn to think and communicate their ideas efefctively. Granted, the system is failing at that for any number of reasons, but in the old days, a classical liberal arts education was the entry way into the professions such as law and medicine and the clergy.

Just my .02 worth.

26 posted on 11/26/2008 9:11:22 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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